[gentoo] 2.6.6 and Nvidia howto:

[gehidore]

thanks hayl for walking me through this.


mkdir /etc/portage
nano /etc/portage/package.keywords

add these lines

media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86
media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86

save it.

emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx
emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx


if you launch X and if it freezes you'll just need to reboot. it should work fine after rebooting.

[hammer123]

why not just
$emerge -u nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx

after changing the keywords?

[gehidore]

Originally posted by hammer123
why not just
$emerge -u nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx

after changing the keywords?

everytime i did that X froze